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  • Glossary item | 18 Mar 2025

Carbon removals

Either the storage of atmospheric or biogenic carbon within geological carbon pools, biogenic carbon pools, long-lasting products and materials, and the marine environment, or the reduction of carbon release from a biogenic carbon pool to the atmosphere

EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, 30.11.2022 COM(2022) 672 final 2022/0394 (COD) Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing a Union certification framework for carbon removals

Source category: EU Legislation